Frank Nez 
On September 5, 2025, the National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a strong rebuke of a reported Justice Department proposal to restrict transgender Americans from possessing firearms, calling it an unacceptable violation of Second Amendment rights.
The NRA’s statement, posted on X, declared, “The Second Amendment isn’t up for debate,” in response to discussions within President Donald Trump’s administration to limit gun ownership for transgender individuals, following a tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on August 27.
The proposal, which has sparked outrage from both gun rights advocates and civil rights groups, highlights tensions within the GOP over balancing its pro-gun stance with anti-trans policies.
Details of the DOJ Proposal and NRA’s Response
The Justice Department’s discussions, first reported by the Daily Wire and confirmed by CNN, center on classifying transgender individuals as mentally ill to bar them from owning firearms, citing the Minneapolis shooting by 23-year-old Robin Westman, a transgender woman who killed two children and injured 17 others.
A DOJ spokesperson told CNN, “Under Attorney General Pam Bondi’s leadership, this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools,” but noted no specific proposals have been advanced.
The talks, described as preliminary, suggest gender dysphoria—a diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5, though not inherently a disorder—could be used to restrict gun ownership.
The NRA, in a statement on X, asserted, “The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms.
NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.”
Other gun rights groups, including Gun Owners of America and the National Association for Gun Rights, echoed this stance, with NAGR president Dudley Brown telling Newsweek, “Taking rights away from any American without due process is an affront to the Constitution.”
Transgender Violence Stats and Legal Hurdles
The proposal has drawn sharp criticism for perpetuating baseless claims.
The Gun Violence Archive found that only 0.11% of mass shootings from 2013 to 2025 involved transgender suspects, with The Violence Project noting just one transgender mass shooter since 1966.
GLAAD’s spokesperson told CNN, “Transgender people are less than 2% of the US population but four times as likely to be victims of crime,” rejecting the narrative of transgender violence.
Harvard Law’s Alejandra Caraballo warned that the administration might use agencies like Medicare to target transgender individuals, though federal law requires a judicial determination of mental “defectiveness” to strip gun rights.
Right-wing figures, including Donald Trump Jr. and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have fueled the narrative, with Trump Jr. falsely claiming after a June 2025 Minnesota assassination that the transgender community poses a significant terror threat.
Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s August 28 Fox News claim about studying links between gender-affirming medications and violence was debunked by experts, with a 2019 FBI study and 2022 research finding no correlation.
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What This Means For Americans
The proposal conflicts with Trump’s pro-Second Amendment stance, as Attorney General Bondi previously pledged to protect gun rights.
Trump’s broader anti-trans policies, including banning transgender military service and erasing federal recognition, have intensified since January 2025.
The NRA’s opposition, alongside pushback from groups like the Human Rights Campaign, which called the proposal an “anti-American” violation of constitutional rights, signals a rare GOP fracture.
For Americans, the issue raises serious concerns about the Trump Administration and its authoritarian red flags.
If they are slowly beginning to introduce ways to remove arms from one group of people, what’s to say they will not take them from all Americans?
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